Tag: Healthcare

This is from the 3rd edition of my book Lean Hospitals. I've copied and pasted from the book with no additional edits, although I'll bold...

In this post, I'd like to share two posts from the KaiNexus Blog. Walking More Safely I wrote this post for KaiNexus based on my...

Insights about improvement, innovation, and leadership... Dear Readers, Covid-19 has disrupted the world.  We have been thrust into a situation where we are required to rapidly...

This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate story from his sister, an emergency...

Episode #361 of the podcast is admittedly not about Lean, but it's an important topic that I think needs to be shared in these...

I had a phone conversation yesterday with an emergency medicine physician after her shift at an unnamed hospital in an undisclosed state. She had a...

I've been thinking a lot about hospitals and how they're preparing for the expected tsunami of Covid-19 patients who will need ICU beds and...

Returning for Episode #360 of the podcast is Leah Binder, the president and CEO of Leapfrog Group. We last talked four years ago in...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions in healthcare is usually infeasible - the presentation of patients can be random...

In my travels, I see many organizations using Year-to-Date (YTD) numbers to evaluate performance. Some of it is in the context, at this moment,...

My guest for Episode #359 of the podcast is Prof. Dr. Alfred Angerer, joining me from Switzerland to talk about Lean healthcare. I had a...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability to raise risks without fear of reprisal.  This post from leanblog.org...